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Saudi Women Driving Blog - 0 views

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saudi driving blog extreme women

shared by kkerby223 on 23 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • kkerby223 on 23 Feb 15
     
    The following link is a blog entitled Saudi Women Driving. The blog posts about issues regarding the law against women driving in Saudi Arabia. The first blog post currently on the page is about a television interview with a man with extreme views on this law. He went as far as to say that not allowing women to drive is to protect them from the possibility of being raped if their car ever broke down.
yperez2

Womens Voices on the Arab Spring: Marianne Ibrahim | Vital Voices - 0 views

www.vitalvoices.org/...s-arab-spring-marianne-ibrahim

shared by yperez2 on 03 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • yperez2 on 03 Mar 15
     
    This is a blog which consists of women speaking about the Arab Spring. The women talk about what they see and hope for the future.
  • yperez2 on 03 Mar 15
     
    This is a blog which consists of women speaking about the Arab Spring. The women talk about what they see and hope for the future.
kbrisba

Tunisia blogger gets 6 months for defaming army - Yahoo News - 0 views

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shared by kbrisba on 08 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • kbrisba on 08 Mar 15
     
    Tunisian military appeals court jailed blogger Yassine Ayari for 6 months for defaming the army. He was prosecuted over blogs he had written alleging financial abuses by army officers and defence ministry officials in a case. Ayari has alleged that he is being punished for blogs he wrote while out of the country. His family and supporters charge that his prosecution is a violation of newfound freedom of expression, which was one of the main gains of the revolution.
petergrossmanseu

WWII Weapons In The Syrian Civil War - The Firearm Blog - 0 views

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WWII weapons Syria

shared by petergrossmanseu on 10 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • petergrossmanseu on 10 Feb 16
     
    An article from the firm's blog talking about World War II weapons being used in the Syrian Civil War. I found both the article and accompanying video very interesting. Besides showing a bunch of very old weapons being used and the essentially finding new life in this conflict, it also shows a government stockpile seized by rebels full of Stg 44s (assault rifles from Nazi Germany). For me this raises the question of how did they get there?
sgriffi2

The Female Political Rockstars of Egypt - 0 views

http://www.ahmedrehab.com/blog/2011/12/women-in-egyptian-elections-social-voting-and-political-rock-...This source is an article written from the first person perspective of an Egyptian woman. The ...

#women #egypt #vote

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sgriffi2

Egyptian Women in Politics - 0 views

http://egypttoday.com/blog/2015/02/23/women-in-parliament-gender-justice-for-egyptian-women/This source is from the news "Egypt Today" and talks about the struggles women still face in trying to vo...

#women #womensrights #egypt #civilrights #vote

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sgriffi2

Violence against women in Egypt - 0 views

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/making-egypts-streets-safe-for-women/?_r=0This is an article from the New York Times that discusses the violence against women that is so rampant that it is...

#womensrights #feminism #egypt

started by sgriffi2 on 24 Mar 15 no follow-up yet
mcooka

Addressing the education emergency in Lebanon | Voices and Views: Middle East and North... - 0 views

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education lebanon Syria refugee

shared by mcooka on 31 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • The education system in Syria is a victim of the country’s conflict; Syrian teachers and students have been displaced, along with their families, and many Syrian refugee children have now been out of school for multiple years.
  • Lebanon has gone to great lengths to accommodate this tsunami of children.
  • Despite these efforts, currently available data indicate that about half of the Syrian children living in Lebanon today are working or otherwise not engaged in learning
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  • With fewer than 1 in 10 Syrian refugees ages 15, 16, or 17 enrolled in secondary school or technical/vocational education, the risk of losing a generation of skilled professionals is very real
  • mcooka on 31 Mar 16
     
    This piece is talking about the efforts of Lebanon to support the education of Syrian children. The refugee students have been out of school for years which hinders their future quality of life. Only about half of the refugee children are attending some sort of school program. 
tdford333

Everything you need to know about the drone debate, in one FAQ - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • "drone" has come to refer to unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), which are UAVs equipped with combat capabilities, most commonly the ability to launch missiles.
  • Predators were deployed to Afghanistan almost immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and on Oct. 7, 2001 they conducted their first armed mission there.
  • The current program is jointly administered by the CIA and the Joint Special Operation Command (JSOC).
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  • Predator drones can carry up to two Hellfire missiles. Those have warheads of about 20 pounds, which are designed to pierce tank armor;
  • Reapers are another story. They feature a maximum payload of 3,000 pounds, or 1.5 tons. That means they can carry a combination of Hellfires and larger 500 pound bombs like the GBU-12 Paveway II and GBD-38 JDAM. Those have an "effective casualty radius" of about 200 feet.
  • From 2008 through October 2012, there were 1,015 strikes in Afghanistan, 48 in Iraq, and at least 105 in Libya
  • Primarily al-Qaeda and its affiliates. That includes al-Shaabab in Somalia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (which works in Yemen), and the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  • Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born al-Qaeda operative in Yemen, was killed in a drone strike in 2011, as was his American-born 17-year-old son
  • Ahmed Hijazi, also an American citizen based in Yemen, was killed in 2002. 
  • The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) will prepare lists of potential targets, which will be reviewed every three months by a panel of intelligence analysts and military officials. They are then passed along to a panel at the National Security Council, currently helmed by CIA director nominee Brennan, and then to Obama for final approval.
  • There is, however, substantial evidence that the percentage of casualties borne by civilians is much lower with drone strikes than with just about any other kind of military intervention
  • It derives the authority for the strikes from the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed in the wake of 9/11, which grants the government broad powers against al-Qaeda.
  • allows states to make war in the interest of self-defense
  • Critics, like UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns, say that this defense is a stretch, and the killings plainly run afoul of the laws of war and international human rights treaties.
  • Only the United States and the United Kingdom (which assists in the Pakistan drone effort) currently use drones in combat
  • All told, the GAO estimates that 76 countries, at least, have drone technology.
  • The Yemeni government quietly agreed to the strikes
  • Citizens in both countries deplore the campaigns.
  • there are deeper doubts as to whether the strategy is recruiting more militants than it kills, by turning local populations against the United States.
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